Life Science - 1
The small intestine breaks down polymers like protein into monomers called____?
amino acids
When two organisms are fighting for limited resource?
What is competition?
What controls everything in a cell?
What is the nucleus?
Word for any living thing.
What is organism?
If a microscope has a total magnification of 200X and the eyepiece magnifies 10X, the objective magnifies ___X.
20X
What is the study of organisms and their environment called?
What is Ecology?
An organism that can make its own food.
What is an autotroph or producer?
The process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection or survival of the fittest?
The powerhouse of the cell
What are mitochondria?
The type of relationship where one organism benefits and one is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
A protist responds to its ___, which is caused by a ___.
environment, stimulus
Chemical formula of glucose
C6H12O6
the community of organisms and the abiotic factors is called the ____________________
ecosystem
What are the chances of two parents who are hybrid for dimples having a child that has no dimples if dimples are dominant?
1/4 or 25%
Glucose is the building block of ___ and ___.
starch and cellulose
The sticks holding a model of a molecule together represent ___
Inside a paramecium you can see several kinds of cell structures called ____________________.
Organelles
Whether it is in an organism or a habitat, maintaining ___ is important so stability is maintained.
homeostasis
Where photosynthesis takes place in a plant cell
What is the chloroplast?
one organisms depend on a host organism in a way that harms the host.
parasitism
Fats, oils and waxes are examples of the polymer ___
lipids
How many pairs of chromosomes does a human body contain?
What is 23
Converting water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose
What is photosynthesis?
Organs that work together to perform a function
What is an organ system?
The jellylike "soup" that fills most of the cell
What is cytoplasm?
green plant cells have 2 structures that animal cells do not have
cell wall and chloroplasts
A very thin blood vessel that allows for gas/food exchange.
What is the a capillary
Known as the father of genetics after studying traits in pea plants.
Gregor Mendel
When a freshwater fish is put into salt water the fish will eventually die because the water will move _____ of the fish. This called ____.
out, osmosis
Plants produce ____ oxygen during ____ than they use it.
more, photosynthesis
During the night a plant is producing gas bubbles. What gas is it?
carbon dioxide
The smallest living part of an organism
What is a cell?
After something dies, the matter is consumed, broken down, and returned to the environment by these.
decomposer
What are the four trophic levels called?
What are producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers
DNA is made up of 4 nitrogen bases. They are
adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine